Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack
Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive over 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 2024
Installation Instructions
1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary
Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.
If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.
If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.
Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.
These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
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evertonton
BoMBoMZ
Can anyone help me out with this, I'm playing with fm20 mobile (Android) and
really really want a full facepack for my fm.
Plz & thank you if you can help me out 👍🇨🇮👍
P.s
I don't use a mobile phone at the moment I'm saving for one. I use my Android TV box for
Playing my FM and the box has very limited space/storage available.
mons
You need close to 14GB space to store the images in this megapack. If you don't have that much space available, I'm afraid it looks like you can't have the faces
Jimmy Skitz
mons
What do you mean? Are you getting an error message or what?
Jimmy Skitz
no, nothing happens the download simply doesn't start
Jimmy Skitz
mons
It's working fine for me, so the issue is something at your end. Could be an issue with an extension blocking downloads? Try using Chrome in incognito mode and see if downloading works that way.
SuperSpurs1882
Been trying to download the mega facepack the biggest download and when the download is completed i always get this message after:
C:\Users\plewi\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\Downloads\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.05 (1).rar
Cannot reach this page
•Make sure the web address is correct
•Search for this site on Bing
•Refresh the page
More information More information
The connection to the website was reset.
Error Code: INET_E_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE
Fix connection problems
I don't know what to do
mons
When you download the file, save it to a non-temporary folder (such as your Downloads and/or Documents folder). Also, try using Google Chrome to downloading. The download has been known to occasionally interrupt half-way, which may be the cause of this issue as well, and Google Chrome allows resuming downloads
rentaiduo91
MacBooks to the best of my admittedly very little knowledge cannot extract multiple files into one big file. I downloaded all 15 parts of the Megapack 12.0 and I now have 15 individual files. Okay, that sucks.. but i do have an old, slow and almost useless windows laptop. I put the files on there, unzip into one big file and... the damn thing is so slow after 9 hours it had copied 4% to my USB...
After some playing about I manage to zip the large file up, and I've put that onto my MacBook. Problem is, now no app i use will unzip this file.. for whatever reason. I've tried Winzip - nope. The Unarchiver gets all the way through the process... and then no files show up on my Mac. Nothing.
Has anyone who used a mac before ran into this type of problem? I have all 15 parts zipped into one file on my mac.. but nothing is working for me. If i can extract that, then i'll have the Megapack ready to use... i'm not tech savvy, and i'm almost certain the solution is staring me right in the face, but until then i thought i would ask on here.
Thanks for any help!
mons
I'm not entirely sure what you did and what files you've ended up with. It would be best if we could have a screenshot of the file(s) you've downloaded and any ensuing output extracted from them
Mawkeh
Does anyone have a simple instruction on how the folders are supposed to be alligned? Perhaps a picture? I've got logos from Footbe Logos 2019-20 also downloaded and they are working fine.
My current setup: My documents: Sports Interactive: Football Manager 2020: Graphics
In the graphics folder I have currently got two folders: Logos & Sortitoutsi
Thank you in advance for help.
mons
There's a screenshot in the opening post of how the installation folder should look like.
Can we have one of what your installation folder looks like? How many cutouts do you have in your faces folder?
Mawkeh
Picture 1
This is what my 'players' folder looks like:
Picture 2
This is what my 'sortitoutsi' folder looks like:
Picture 3
This is how many cutouts there are in my 'faces' folder:
Picture 4
In total the file size is 14.5 GB.
mons
Everything looks in order here: thup: Are your preferences like the ones in the opening post? Can I have a look at them too?
Mawkeh
After trying to tick both "Reload skin when confirming in Preferences" and "Use caching to decrease page loading times" several times, I finally thought that maybe I should do them one at a time. So I unticked both, confirmed, ticked "reload skin etc", confirm and then the caching decrease + confirm. Now everything's as it should. So if anyone's having the same issue as me, remember to tick off the settings one at a time.
Nathan Ainsworth
mons
It could well be an GUI issue caused by the new patch. If you try a different skin with the same zoom level, does the issue still occur? If yes, then it's definitely a GUI issue and should be reported to SI on the official forums so that they can tackle it. I doubt it's related to this megapack, though.
bimble_fish23
Sports interactive > Football Manager 2020 > graphics > sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.04 > sortitoutsi >
why when i reload the skin (ticking and unticking all the correct boxes) does it not update the faces in game?
mons
Can I have a screenshot of the location you've installed the pack in? How many images do you have in your faces folder? Do you have a file named config.xml in there?
piitertoolen
Today my steam updated FM 2020 and after that faces are gone. It has worked until today perfectly, same logic as you have described. I have tried pretty much everything to find out what's the problem but can't solve it by myself.
Boxes are checked correctly, faces have been in my computer since I don't even know when, have updated them time by time, tried to reset setting etc, but still, the same thing. I also have .xml file in my folder.
EDIT: Some faces are still showing but not many. So that's even weirder.
Any idea?
Cheers
mons
Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder, showing clearly the path they're in? Ideally also another screenshot if necessary which indicates how many files and folders are in the megapack folder.
piitertoolen
Thanks for such a quick answer!
I have tried several things to get it work. Right now they are: C:\Users\Lenovo\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics\players\faces
https://imgur.com/a/PUBe33v
https://imgur.com/a/XtEWFmT
Before it worked perfectly when they were just graphics/faces.
Folder size is 13GB, around 419 620 files.
Cheers
mons
Folder size and location looks fine but I'm not sure about the amount of files. There are around 247,000 cuts in the megapack, so you look to have almost twice as much.
Can I see a screenshot of the properties of the faces folder? Are there any sub-folders in there?
piitertoolen
Sorry, I looked wrong folder. I have around 209k faces in there.
https://imgur.com/a/SnWYvW5
mons
You seem to have an older version of the megapack on your PC, possibly 11.0 going by the amount of files. Try downloading the 12.0 base megapack via torrent (and also the 12.01 - 12.05 update packs individually) to have a larger selection of player faces. Though it isn't the reason why faces don't display, updating the config file may help.
Can you give me screenshots of how the faces look in-game? Especially of a face which was displaying before but isn't now. Try changing the skins to see if the issue resolves itself this way.
What do your in-game preferences look like, particularly the "use caching..." tickbox?
piitertoolen
It's older, obviously through like I said, I have updated it since then.
I have tried to change skins, tickboxes, everything. Just some players have faces, some don't.
https://imgur.com/a/5zClDnI
https://imgur.com/a/DvcPoIq
It's just like that. I just don't like the idea I need to download the same things 11GB all over again. Otherwise, even if I do that, it's just too weird that it just "stopped working", when literally nothing was changed.
mons
Interestingly that face isn't Gravenbech's cut-out in this pack (and it never has been in the megapack) but I believe it's SI's default cut-out for him. I suspect this means that none of this pack's cut-outs are working.
So, can I have a screenshot of your in-game preferences? Also, could you upload the config file in your faces folder?
piitertoolen
Update - I downloaded a new version of megapack and it started working. So I think .xml was corrupted? Or something like that.
Thank you for your time.